Car cruise is on Woodward not telegraph. So people aren’t looking for minibikes and hot rods on telegraph. I’m sure there’s some spillover but telegraph is a long way from Woodward. Basically the car cruise goes through Royal Oak to Birmingham. All the rich suburbs. Telegraph on the other hand goes through Detroit and Dearborn, which is not what I would call the rich suburbs. Travel speeds on telegraph are a lot higher than Woodward so it seems.
As for calling studs, what a colossal waste of time. When you go in there you can’t get a straight answer out of anybody. I get the impression that they just want to take your money and then get you out the door. If you have any questions, they don’t have time for it or don’t wanna make time. I guess that’s a reasonable stance given who they’re dealing with - bunch of cheap customers that don’t have a clue about anything. Which would probably includes me. Studs is good if you know exactly what you want. Because if you don’t, it just never works out there. They’re not the hand-holding types. Also they are hardware store. Which means half the personnel there don’t know anything about Minibikes. so calling them on the phone gives you a low percentage of talking to somebody that knows anything. Eric obviously knows a lot, but he's not usually there. And he's a bit odd to talk to, he seems like his head is in 10 places. That's just been my experience. Obviously your mileage will vary.